Top 150 Elin Hilderbrand Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Stuart and Jenna exchanged rings-platinum band for Stuart, and platinum with diamonds for Jenna, but they could have been aluminum or plastic. Expensive rings did not guarantee a happy life together.”

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52. “Secrets become lies, and lies end up destroying you and everyone you care about.”

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53. “It’s not a house to us. It’s a home. And it’s not a home, it’s s way of life. Our summertime happens here. This house is part of our past, it’s our present, it’ll be our future. It’s who we are.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

54. “The line that finally makes Jessie burst into sobs is Despite everything, I believe all people are good at heart.”

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55. “For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

56. “She didn’t know how any woman anywhere conducted an affair without having the ear of a best friend.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

57. “Or a T-shirt that says Cash Me Outside How Bah Dat.”

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58. “Being a mother was the best of all human experiences, and also the most excruciating.”

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59. “He knew he was limited, and he hated it.”

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60. “But the road was still sunny, the gulls cried out. Neil was gone, and for a second, Jem felt something he thought might be peace.”

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61. “The adventure is in the journey.”

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62. “Telling the truth when you’ve done something wrong is the most terrifying thing in the world.”

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63. “First you love the music that your parents love – and then, later in life, you love the songs your kids love.”

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64. “Even Belinda, who could write what she knew about boats on her thumbnail and still have room for the Lord’s Prayer, could tell this one was special. Buck.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

65. “Some people think sugar is the key to desserts,” Mario said. “But I am here to tell you that if you want a good dessert, you have to start with a fresh egg.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

66. “With this in mind, Ava tells herself to be present and celebrate the holiday instead of wishing it was over. After all, one is given only a certain number of Christmases in one’s life.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

67. “He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being.”

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68. “Three geese stuffed with apples and onions, served with a Roquefort sauce, stuffing with chestnuts, potato gratin, curried carrots, brussel sprouts with bacon and chives-.”

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69. “Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. As she had well learned, the laptop could destroy a day.”

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70. “Folded-over chips are preferable to flat chips – why is that? It’s one of life’s ten million mysteries.”

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71. “And Margot should have made a rule about no cell phones. What was it about life now? The people who weren’t present always seemed to be more important than the people who were.”

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72. “In even the bleakest situations, there’s usually some good to be salvaged.”

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73. “And the worst thing about being young is not being able to appreciate that you’re young because you aren’t old enough to know any better.”

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74. “Euthanasia is a topic that taps into deeply personal views of dignity and fear but, mostly, spirituality.”

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75. “Chemistry between two people is a slippery, elusive thing. Love is not transferable.”

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76. “Every life contains a novel.”

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77. “What am I going to do now? Then I realized this was the perfect time to start journaling again. Because if you don’t write down what happens in a day, you forget – and that day becomes a blur and that blur becomes your life.”

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78. “Cash avoids group tours for a reason: they turn even the most authentic experiences into a Disneyland ride. It’s unavoidable, he.”

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79. “Dr. Bentz takes the last seat at the table. He seems present and engaged but studiously unperturbed. He loves conflict resolution, Ainsley knows. A poster of Jimmy Carter hangs in his office.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

80. “Lindsay Lohan? Patrick thinks. He’s relieved Bart has joined the Marines. Anyone who publicly announces himself a fan of Lindsay Lohan needs straightening out.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

81. “She knew she should be happy the girls were outside riding their very expensive horses. Girls who rode became interested in boys and makeup and cigarettes much later than their nonriding counterparts.”

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82. “He liked the atmosphere of skiing – the fire-warmed lodge, the view of a snowy mountainside, the clean air, the drinks – but not the sport itself.”

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83. “Being responsible for her own happiness, she has realized, is a lonely proposition.”

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84. “When you peered into the windows of someone else’s life, you could only guess what was going on.”

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85. “Nothing was off-limits, nothing was deemed “too adult,” and nothing took precedence over reading; it was considered the holiest activity a person could engage in.”

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86. “There’s a line at the end of the song that goes ‘Golden girl, I’ll keep you forever.’ And that was the jumping-off point for my own song. Vivi was my golden girl. She was the one I would hold above all others.” He looks at Willa. “To this day, that’s true.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

87. “It had been the quintessential autumn night, cool but not yet cold, the air smelling of wood smoke and leaves.”

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88. “What I’d really like is a teaspoon of white sugar in my regular Lipton tea. Not honey, not agave, not raw organic turbinado. Just good old white processed sugar.” “Does Mrs. Quinn keep something as toxic as that in the house?” Lara asks.”

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89. “Bad things can happen, terrible things. You can lose the people you love the most; you can lose homes, cars, antiques, hand-knotted silk rugs that cost five figures; you can discover that the very life you’re living is a terrific lie. And despite this, despite all this, the sun will continue to rise.”

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90. “You just didn’t know what life was going to hand you. You didn’t know what love you would find, what love would be snatched away.”

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91. “She gazes over at baby Genevieve, who is now asleep in Kevin’s arms, and thinks, I really don’t have any words of advice at all. The world is an endlessly confounding place.”

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92. “She spent seventy-seven dollars at Wayfair on a framed quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

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93. “Eddie has long joked that the two most useful backgrounds for a real estate broker are psychology and elementary education.”

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94. “When deep August arrives, a certain melancholy sets in, the kind people get on a Sunday afternoon.”

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95. “I love you in a way that is so powerful it lifts me up, it propels me forward. You propel me forward.”

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96. “Satisfaction was not to be gained from finishing the task; satisfaction was to be gained from the process.”

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97. “There is nothing more mysterious, confounding, and unknowable, than the desires of the human heart.”

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98. “There was a memory for everything, India realized; it was pointless to try to escape the memories.”

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99. “One of the best feelings in the world was finding something you were sure you’d lost forever.”

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100. “Time remains a mystery to Margaret. A game of Monopoly can consume an afternoon, and an hour on the treadmill seems like forever. But a lifetime passes in an instant.”

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